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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach